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Safiyah's Guide to Naked Palettes

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

In all the excitement of the new Naked 3 Palette release, I know there has been some confusion in which to buy for a lot of people, so I thought I'd break it down in my opinion and experience with the 3 palettes.

Despite the three palettes being neutral shades, each palette offers a range of neutrals to suit every skin tone. They each have colours that would suit fair and deep tones alike, for example the golds Half Baked/Trick; or bronzes Smog/Snakebite; or plums Hustle/Busted).However, I think some palettes look darker on fairer tones and the new Naked 3's matte shades will look too chalky on deeper tones (still yet to be 100% confirmed!)Laid out together you can see the difference in palettes:

As a guide, I'd say the following palettes are best suited to these MAC skintones based on the matte blending/transition shades in each palette:

Like I said above, this guide isn't strictly to be followed as the shimmery shades in all 3 palettes can be worn on pretty much every skintone, so my guide is just based on using the matte shades really!

I hope this helps in deciding which palette is best for you (if you're not a collector/UD junkie like me). All three Naked Palettes are now available to buy at the following retailers (if they're not already sold out for Christmas!):House of Fraser, and John Lewis.Do you have a Naked Palette? Which is your favourite?

2 comments:

This is a very useful post, thank you! I have an Indian skintone and I adore my Naked 1 palette, but I rarely ever use my Naked 2. With all the hype of Naked 3 I have wanted to buy it but I just don't think it would suit me if I don't really use Naked 2. Thanks again :)